The Brass Command
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First Edition. SIGNED "Clay Fisher 1984". 8vo. Author Will Henry writing as Clay Fisher. A fine copy in color illustrated dustjacket designed by Michael Mitchell. Item #22525
Little Wolf, last War Chief of the Powder River Cheyenne, sets out to lead his people back to their native lands in the distant Black Hills, and only a lonely outpost of the U.S. Cavalry at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, stands in his way. Here is an account of a career officer's last chance, and of the base-metal rewards of military ambition in an Indian Territory garrison of the late 1870's.
Henry Wilson Allen, under his pennames Will Henry–the name he preferred, personally and professionally–and Clay Fisher, produced fifty three between 1950 (the year of his No Survivors and Red Blizzard) and his death in 1991. In 1961 the Western Writers of America awarded him their first Saddleman Award for the best novel of the year; between 1950 and 1981 his novels of the American West sold more than 15 million copies.
Price: $300.00